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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So it's possible to download the installer through steam, store it somewhere and ten years later I can just start the installer without having steam on my system?

Asking out of curiosity, I don't use steam, I never thought that would be possible?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it is because even Steam games without DRM are still modified to work with Steam for things like achievements. There may be games without DRM and without achievements but if a game has either of them it will not work without it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think they'll still work without Steam, otherwise you couldn't play them offline either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They work without reaching the Steam online service, but they need Steam installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that makes sense. Does kinda suck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can copy the entire game folder and run it that way, as long as the game is actually DRM free it should work just fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So no installer then? Or can you download that separately?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You would use Steam as the installer, or you can buy it on GoG and they will give you an installer for the game. Entirely depends on what game you're trying to copy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you! I have about 5 games on steam, so I haven't installed it on my system. The only interesting one is Doom 2016, so for a moment I thought I could download the installer as a backup without having to use steam anymore in the future when I do want to play it again. Would have been nice. Thanks for clarifying!